Dalby v. Maxfield

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a cross-bill for specific performance filed by Hannah Caroline Maxfield against the complainants in the original bill, which was a bill for partition filed by Joseph F. Dalby and others, as the heirs-at-law of John W. Dalby, deceased, and granting the partition as prayed for in the original bill. The only errors alleged which require consideration relate to the decree dismissing the cross-bill.

John W. Dalby was the owner, at the time of his death, of 341 acres of farm lands in Macoupin county and about $10,000 worth of personal property. He left 'no…